In another wing of the school on the same day, 2nd grade teacher Nikki Longmore was using a RAP lesson to read aloud a nonfiction book: 14 Cows for America, which recounts how a Maasai tribe in ...

Because her second-grade curriculum is so full, Cardillo integrates poetry whenever she can across the curricular areas, and may read additional pieces as what she calls “rewards or treats.

We tend to reserve reading aloud for kids or others who can't read on their own. ... Get a book and read out loud. ... and I'm 8 years old and in second grade at Clermont Elementary in Clermont, ...